State v. Carruthers’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
85
cited by 85 later decisions
12
states following
January 2019
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 79 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Bland · State v. Keen · State v. Chalmers
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the `test' we employ [for comparative proportionality review] is so broad that nearly any sentence could be found proportionate; our review procedures are too subjective; and the `pool' of cases which are reviewed for proportionality is too small.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Stout · State v. McKinney
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.